Les Culottées

The stories were split into two print publications in France with the subtitle Des Femmes Qui ne Font Que ce Qu'elles Veulent (Women Who Do as They Please).

The English version has only 29 stories instead of the original 30, as "Phoolan Devi, the Indian Queen of Bandits" was removed because it included the rape of a ten-year-old girl by her husband.

[3] Pénélope Bagieu's Les Culottées is presented as a series of vignettes of historical women of various time periods and nationalities.

[4] Some of the women featured in Les Culottées include Joséphine Baker, Tove Jansson, Clementine Delait,[4] Margaret Hamilton, Josephina Van Gorkum, Nzinga,[5] and Frances Glessner Lee.

[7] Bagieu had planned to create a blog BD focused on thirty "audacious women" who decide to take charge of their own destiny for a long time, to be published on the official website of Le Monde.

The English version has only 29 stories instead of the original 30, as "Phoolan Devi, the Indian Queen of Bandits" was removed because it included the rape of a ten-year-old girl by her husband.